By Melodee I’ve always said I had a happy childhood. I’m not sure why I think that. My parents moved twenty-five times by the time I was five years old. And not just down the street. We moved from Wisconsin to Kansas to Montana and points in between until finally, we landed down in Washington…
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Why
Guest post by Jenna “Why are you here?” It was the first question I was asked when I jogged up the stairs to Bible study this Sunday. It wasn’t supposed to make me feel like I didn’t belong there or even question that I was in the wrong room. It was for me to know…
Sickly
By Beck This week saw some Medical Excitement for me – I phoned the local clinic, because I’d had severe chest pains for several days and my ARM had gone numb and that was it, I was having a heart attack, and the local clinic was like GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM RIGHT NOW so…
Pregnancy Journal: I Am Falling Apart
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly I am falling apart. I determined this last week when I heaved my aching, groaning self onto the couch, after a long day of single parenthood to 3.5 kids. (My husband travels a lot for business in the winter months, to unfortunate locales like Florida and Virginia and…
Protecting Their Permanent Record
By Michael Two teenagers, aged 12 and 13, are in trouble in Indiana for sexting each other. The boy is 12, the girl 13, and the incredibly evenhanded, calm and wise authorities have raised the possibility of felony charges. (For the record, my solution for child molesters involves sterilization and cremation, not necessarily in that…
The Big Aha
By Megan First, I want to thank Steph for her post in support of my journey to the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure! It’s wonderful to have friends who get excited about our passions along with us, isn’t it? And I think that’s been the big AHA for me as I’ve started digging…
Paring
By Beck The phone rang very early this morning, which made me reach for it with that feeling of impending doom. What horror would I hear? It was my daughter’s best friend. She needed a vegetable peeler for school. Ah. So after phoning my own mother – I only own one vegetable peeler, which the…
Pregnancy Journal: He’s Moving! I Swear He Is!
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly The baby boy inside of me moves. A lot. He kicks and jabs and turns and rolls. There are times my abdomen feels like a super-flex garbage bag that can handle the sharpest pokes and prods. There are other times my belly looks like the waves of an…
Great Parenting, with one secret ingredient
By Michael If you want to be a good parent, it helps a lot to have one. Maybe two. One of my nephew’s friends posted a note on FaceBook about his dad’s birthday and said how much he misses his father. We didn’t talk about it, but I know how he feels. My dad was…
Pink is our signature color
By Stephanie I wanted to write out of the ordinary about our very extraordinary Megan (you- or rather y’all- also know her as Fried Okra). She is hitting the pink pavement this fall to walk in The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for The Cure. How have you been touched by breast cancer? For me personally,…